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  • John Oliver Shows That Our Last Story About The Turkmenistan President Was Just The Tip Of The Iceberg [Video]

    13 Aug 2019 by Carrie in Entertainment, Politics, Television, Video
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    Despite his efforts to remain out of the international news, the Turkmenistan president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, has been cropping up a lot lately.

    As it stands, Berdimuhamedow, the leader of one of the most oppressive countries in the world, might be missing or dead, or – as his government would have us believe – driving doughnuts around a crater affectionately known as the “Gateway to Hell”.

    As John Oliver points out in a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, “you can’t do doughnuts around a fire pit if you’re dead”.

    When he isn’t driving in circles around fire pits, he’s riding horses – badly. In one standout incident, he fell off a horse in front of reporters who were then ordered to delete the footage.

    Oliver also discovered that Guinness World Records works with authoritarian governments, including Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, and the police force in Dubai, to set records.

    Here’s TIME:

    According to Oliver, “authoritarians love getting Guinness World Records” as they help earn publicity and reinforce “a cult of personality” for the leaders.

    To that end, Oliver decided the best way to get under Berdimuhamedov’s skin would be to bake the world’s largest marble cake featuring the “human rights abusing horse f–ker” tumbling from his horse and have Guinness enter it into the record books.

    You can watch it all unfold right here:

    Nicely done.

    He also dedicated some time to Donald Trump’s visit to victims of the recent mass shooting in El Paso.

    As predicted, Trump displayed what Oliver accurately describes as a “pathological lack of empathy”.

    Take it away:

    In the words of Dan Savage, “Impeach the motherf****r, already”.

    [source:time]

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